bcw (12/15/82)
From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: Smalltalk Could someone please tell me why the following analogy is not appropriate to the SmallTalk debate? A few years back, there was quite a debate in the operating systems field about message-passing vs procedure oriented operating systems. After a while, it was proved that the difference was almost entirely in the terminology and a few internal details, and that the "messages" and "procedures" in the operating systems under discussion could be put into a 1 to 1 mapping, with all other features of the two approaches similarly finding equivalent objects in the other architecture. The two approaches even seem to produce about equivalent speed systems (in this case). Why is the SmallTalk vs everything else debate any different? Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University